Spenser Thompson has an MLIS and has worked in academic and special libraries in California. He also has degrees from the University of Pennsylvania (Religion) and Antioch University (Psychology). Spenser is originally from Hollywood where his father made a living making music for recording artists, TV commercials and film.
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The Innovative Users Group (IUG) Annual Conference takes place in Anaheim, CA beginning this Sunday with the Pre-conference and continuing through Wednesday, May 20. The IUG tells us that over 1,000 attendees from 13 nations will participate in over 160 programs at the event. Attendees will give presentations on best practices for using Innovative products, […]
January 22, 2009 :
What’s Going On? Program Registration 3.0!
Program Registration is a full-featured solution that manages and publicizes all the events, classes, and other goings-on at your library—and our latest version is better than ever. Listen to this podcast interview with Sarah Hickman Auger to learn about how libraries are using it and why the new enhancements in Program Registration 3.0 are so […]
Innovative is a sponsor of the Library and Information Technology (LITA) conference once again and we are proud to do so. I’ll be heading out to LITA 2008 in Cincinnati, Ohio along with my colleagues Sandy Hurd, Director of Strategic Markets, and Dinah Sanders, Encore Senior Product Manager. Dinah will be presenting along with Kelly […]
Don’t you love browsing around a library? I do. Maybe it’s one of the reasons you wound up working in a library. You may even stumble upon something you didn’t know the library had or a special room with a unique collection. The more inclusive a general library search is online, the more opportunities for […]
This year’s IUG Annual Conference in Washington, DC was a gigantic success and we’d like to acknowledge the 1600 attendees and the winners of the Be Innovative! Awards…
Most Innovative Implementation of eResource Discovery
Birmingham Public Library (AL) was recognized for using WebBridge LR (Link Resolver) to link to Amazon.com for e-resource discovery in WebPAC Pro, Innovative’s […]
There’s a fascinating article that just appeared in the New York Times about Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, the man who made a sound recording (of a woman singing) that predates Edison’s.
Since preservation is an obsession of librarians, Scott’s biography is interesting:
Scott is in many ways an unlikely hero of recorded sound. Born in Paris in […]
March 4, 2008 :
Program Management in a Large Public Library Environment
Here’s a little interview I did with Sarah Hickman, a Product Manager at Innovative for the Program Registration product. Our discussion focuses on “Program Management in a Large Public Library Environment.” Innovative has been working with partners like Scottsdale Public Library to manage program information efficiently and bring public program information into the discovery environments […]
Did you become a librarian because a copy of the AACR II was accidentally sent to you? Or because of the sensory experience of the library…the sound (maybe quieter than other public spaces), the sight of all those books in one place, people doing their best to buckle down and study. And yes, maybe even […]
February 12, 2008 :
Q&A: Facets, Tag Clouds, and Shoe Shopping
Here’s the first in a series of “Q&A” podcasts with Innovative staff. We’re calling this one Dinah Sanders on Three Challenges for New Discovery Tools.
Dinah is the Senor Product Manager for Encore and she hits on a few of its features like facets and tag clouds. There’s also a fun search example about shoe shopping…
Dinah […]
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